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The College News
VOL. XXIV, No. 26
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1938
PRICE 10 CENTS
DEWILDA NARAMORE IS EUROPEAN FELLOW, 89290
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Commencement
Address Given
By F. B. Sayre
Plea for Tolerance Made
In Speech on America
of Tomorrow
MORAL STANDARDS
NECESSARY TODAY
Goodhart, June 1.�The America
of Tomorrow was the title of the Com-
mencement Address by the Honorable
Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary
of State, who spoke on the funda-
mentals of the American spirit and
their interpretation in relation to
other nations. America which is "tol-
erant, which -believes in individual
freedom, which stakes everything
upon democracy," must awake to the
fact "that civilization depends upon
accented moral standards among na-
tions no less than among individuals."
Extracts from the Honorable
Mr. Say re's speech follow:
". . . America�If the name means
anything�must mean tolerance. A
nation compounded as we are of Eng-
lish and Germans, Irish and Dutch,
Italians and French, Slavs and Turks,
Spanish and Swiss, yes, and to a cer-
tain extent of Japanese and Chinese,
made up of Protestants and Catholics,
of Jews and Gentiles, of white, red,
yellow, and black�a nation com-
pounded of almost every national
stock, of almost every race, of dif-
fering religions, must be built on the
corner stone of tolerance, of breadth
of understanding, of generosity of
viewpoint, and largeness of outlook
In a day when religious intolerance
was threatening European civilization.
America grew up as the mecca of lov-
ers of liberty, and upon tolerance she
builded her strength. Today, when
racial intolerance and idological intol-
erance are threatening European civ-
ilization, it is of transcendent impor-
tance that America maintain her
splendid tradition of tolerance and
large-visioned appreciation and un-
derstanding of others. America cannot
afford to go Communist. America
cannot afford to go Fascist. America
cannot afford to go totalitarian. If
America is to remain, great, America
must remain tolerant of other view-
points and ready to assimilate the
best of all. Therein lies her strength.
Must Keep Individual Liberty
. "Second, America�if she keep true
to her traditions�must continue a
synonym for individual freedom. The
colonies were founded by refugees
from old-world restraints and by fear-
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Dean Wicks Speaks
At Baccalaureate
Attacks 'Defenders of Opinion
Who Are Not Defenders
of the truth"
Goodhart Hall, May SO.�Dr. Robert
Russell Wicks, Dean of Princeton Uni-
versity Chapel, spoke at the annual
Baccalaureate Service. Processional
hymns and anthems sung by the choir
from the balcony preceded the sermon.
"Let us think," Dr. Wicks said,
"about the greatest thing�a willing
person." We need people who look
on life as an experiment in willing-
ness, who do things for the fun of
it. Dr. Wicks cited Mme. Curie as
an individual who was "utterly will-
ing�above the distinctions of race
and creed�free from self-concern."
College students should cultivate
their feelings as they do their minds,
to avoid following the example of the
man "who felt like lighting a match
to see if his gas tank was empty."
At some point we feel a call for
our best and must reckon with the
"unexplained reality that men call
God." We cannot reach the perfec-
tion which calls us, but it can reach
us and set us free to find things for
ourselves.
Willing' devotion is important, Dr.
Wicks said, when dealing with the
moral conceit which besets college
students when they leave college. In-
stead of being defenders of truth they
are defenders of opinion. Dr. Wicks
Continued on Page Five
Athletic Credit to be
Given for Modern Dance
Professional Will Take Advanced
Students and Beginners
Modern dancing will be given next
year for sports' credit, three hours a
week in the fall and spring, and two
in the winter, according to the ath-
letic department. At a meeting on
May 4, the Dancers' Club was also
unanimously dissolved, and a new or-
ganization of modern dancers formed
to take its place. This will be called
the Dance Group of Bryn Mawr.
Lucile Sauder, '39, was elected chair-
man.
Modern dancing, under the new
plan, will have the same status as
fencing. It will be part of the cur-
riculum, but since it is given by an
outside teacher, students taking it
will have to pay fees. These, however,
will probably be considerably less than
they were this year.
The athletic department reached
its decision following the circulation
of two petitions during the week of
May 9, after the Dance Forum. The
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DEWILDA NARAMORE
'38 and '39 Councils
Hold Joint Meeting
Obligatory Fee on All Students
To Help College Activities
"" Is Discussed
RECORD LIBRARY PLANS
'Lantern' is Too Serious, Self-Conscious;
.Mile. Bree Advises Unashamed Attitude
(Especially contributed by Mile.
Germaine Bree.) .
The Spring Issue of the Lantern
shows signs of stern self-criticism, a
most chastened state of mind, wholly
profitable if not carried to the point
of self-destruction. Its firm, clear,
ironical editorial does in fact raise
the question of the future existence
of the Lantern, of the lack of qual-
ity and quantity in the contributions
offered and published. Pessimistic?
I should say, rather, optimistic. Good
-...writing is rare, and if once, in many-
years, in a small group of students,
a really first class contribution is
made, both staff and readers of the
magazine should be properly aston-
ished and grateful. Meanwhile, why
not accept, unashamed, the efforts of
average writers, more light-heartedly:
self-conscious, faulty, artificial, melo-
dramatic though they be; that is ex-
actly what is to be expected�with,
however, a little more humour and
. fun than appear in this issue. Hu-
m
mour only appears unexpectedly, as
when Miss Rosenheim writes: "In the
1920's there were many small groups
. . . many of whom pinned their faith
to the League of Nations as a guid-
ing star." A stranger fate is re-
served for the same small groups.
We find them "united in an ultimate
goal, yet diametrically opposed
method."
Genevieve Baer in her article Why
I Dislike Animal Stories attempted
a semi-serious semi-comical genre.
The idea was good and full erf poSs?-
bilities. The article .starts well, but
the ajjd is flat. The humour gives
way to irony too earnest and too
weighty for so light a subject, and
the tone is rather smug and confiden-
tial. Miss Riesman's Mrmologue is
much too obviously built in view of
the most artiicial anti-climax at the
end. It would have been much bet-
ter had Miss Riesman sacrificed effect
so lacking in subtltey to simple com- - j brought her up to be a suffragette.
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President's House, May 10.�At the
final meeting of the College Council
proposals for a flat activity charge on
all students were discussed. The
money collected in this way would be
used to help organizations like the
Yearbook. This would eliminate the
many indirect contributions to college
activities which students now make
through Undergraduate and Self-Gov-
ernment associations.
The recurrent academic problem of
an extra senior reading period and
of the use of Orals, were also d^is-
cussed, but no final decisions were
reached. Mrs. Collins reported a 600
dollar profit for the Theatre Work-
shop from Miss Skinner's benefit per-
formance of Edna, His Wife. Ap-
proximately 6000 dollars has been
raised to date. The proposed record
library has received a gift of" 200
dollars from the Glee Club.
The business managers of the 1938
and 1939 yearbooks strongly advised
adding five dollars to each student's
Continued on Page Four
Esther Abbie Ingalls Is Named
Alternate With 8^.334 Average
Nine Graduate Magna Cum Laude and 23 Cum Laude;
16 Receive Doctors' Degrees, 23 Master
Of Arts, and 85 B.A.
HINCHMAN AWARD
HELD BY NARAMORE
Dewilda Naramore, this year's
European Fellow, shows tendencies
to genius. She is only 20 this May
and stayed out a year before high
school and two years before college.
She finished high school in three
years, spending one at the American
High School of Berlin and two at
the Bronxville High School, where
she graduated highest in her class.
Rather than loaf for two years be-
fore college, Djpvilda became a
graduate of Catherine Gibb's Busi-
ness School. With this as training,
she has been Mr. Gray's secretary
for three years, and as such has done
much interesting work.
While at college she has held the
James E. Rhoads Memorial Sopho-
more and Junior Scholarships and in
her last year, the Maria L. Estcr-
mann Brooke Hall and Hinchman
scholarships given to the junior who
has done the~~most outstanding work
in her major subject and who has
the highesV^average. Radcliffe has
offered her the Augustus Anson Whit-
ney and Benjamin White Whitney
Fellowship for history."- Next year,
however, she will be at Cambridge,
Continued on Page Two
Girlish Delight Marks
Class Reunion Week
During Alumnae Week and com-
mencement weekend the News usually
interviews members of the returning
classes. Trying to carry out this cus-
tom, two News reporters found Bar-
bara Cary, '36, in the Denbigh smok-
ing room, and asked her to reminisce.
She refused on the grounds that she
had "reminisced like hell for two peo-
ple in pants last autumn" and that
not a word of it had appeared in
print^--'"?
For different reasons every one was
equally reticent. Class officers, cor-
nered in class headquarters, would
yield nothing but statistics. Mass re-
action to the Science Building was di-
vided�scientific alumnae thought it
handsome, unscientific ones awful.
One alumna said that an anti-hoop
movement, comparable to the recent
one, had started in '36. It consisted
chiefly of grumblings from hoopless
undergraduates and nothing was done.
The inmates of the 1936 headquarters
agreed fflftttus~year,s modification of
the tradition was good, but added,
"don't cut them oufBhtirely."
Generally rebuffed, the News re-
porters decided to get their expose of
the alumnae through gleaned remarks
and outside opinions. Although it
was 9.30, a 19^17 dinner was still
going on in the Denbigh dining room
to the tune of:
'I didn't raise my girl to be a chicken.
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H. Hartman Wins Second
Prize in Vogue Contest
Prize Thesis Describes Nearby
Amish and Mennonites
Competing "just for a lark," Helen
Hartman, '38, took second place in
Vogue's Third Annual Prix de Paris
contest and thus assured herself a six-
month job with the magazine's New
York staff. First prize, won by
Valentine Porter, of Radcliffe, is a
year with Vogue�six months each in
New York and Paris.
The aim of the contest is the "dis-
covery and development of women
who have imagination, a flair for
fashion and the ability to write."
Helen Hartman said in an interview
that she had long been interested in
fashion, but regarded it as secondary
to writing. She hopes, she said, that
Vogue will let her do a travelogue or
general article like the contest thesis.
Her prize-winning paper described
the Amish and Mennonites in Lan-
caster County, Pa.
In addition to the thesis, each of
the 700 college seniors who entered
the Prix de Paris contest had to an-
swer six sets of questions on fashion
and style. Less than half the en-
trants finished the competition.
Helen Hartman told of her surprise
at winning the second award: "Dur-
ing comprehensives, when I was feel-
ing particularly low, I got a call
from the Dean's office. I thought I
must have flunked something, but
Miss Ward told me that Vogue
wanted to speak to me." Three days
later she learned the good news.
After spending the summer in
France, England and Scotland, Helen
will join Vogue next September.
ESSAY PRIZE WON
BY FRANCIS FOX
Goodhart, June 1.�Dewilda Ellen
Naramore has been selected as th^s
Bryn Mawr European Fellow for
next year, Miss Park announced at
the Commencement Exercises this
morning. Miss Naramore was gradu-
ated magna cum laude with distinc-
tion in history. Esther Abbie Ingalls
was named as alternate for the fel-
lowship, graduating magna cum laude
with distinction in biology. The M.
Carey Thomas Essay Prize of 100 dol-
lars, for the member of the graduat-
ing class whose writing is adjudged
best in the class, was awarded to
Frances Langsdorf Fox. Out of a
class of 78, nine were graduated
magna cum laude, and 23 cum laude.
Seventeen received their degrees with
distinction.
Following is a list of those who
received AB.., M.A. and Ph.D. de-
grees from Bryn Mawr College:
Bachelor of Arts
BIOLOGY
Nancy Angell �^
cum laude New York City
Mildred Palmer Bakewell
Connecticut
Margaret Evans
magna cum laude Philadelphia
(with distinction in biology)
Esther Abbie Ingalls
magna cum laude Virginia
(with distinction in biology)
Lucy Huxley Kimberh-y Maryland
Ellen Brooks Newton New York City
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Notice
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean's office before September
15. After Commencement noti-
fication may be made by letter
to either Miss Ward or Miss
Walsh. After September 15 a
fine of five dollars will be
charged unless a very good rea-
son for delay can be given.
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Faculty Appointments
Announced in Chapel
Goodhart Hall, May 12.�President
Park opened the last chapel of the
year with a selection from the sen-
ate's rules concerning the conduct re-
quired in examinations. Following
this she read a brief report of the
three cases of plagiarism on campus
this year. Under an old college regu-
lation, all such infractions must be re-
ported to the students in full. Since
then this rule has been somewhat
modified so that the names of the
students involved are not made pub-
lic. All three offenders- were fgesh-
men, one an exchange student. Mr.
Tennent, Mr. David, and Miss Swind-
ler served as the judicial body in fix-
ing the penalties for these students.
Miss Park then announced the fac-
ulty appointments for next year, add-
ing that the college is still unable to
reveal the name of the professor who
will take the place of the late *Wil-
lian Roy Smith.
In 1938-1939, for'-the first time in
the history of fie college, the appoint-
ment of research professor is l:eing
made. Mr. Tennent, who is receiving
this appointment in biology, will work
in his own laboratory and will also
direct t'13 new plan of teaching the
sciences jointly? Two new appoint-
ments have been made to fill his place
and courses in bacteriology will be
added to the college curriculum. Mr.
Doyle will give the bacteriology course
and the course he gave this year will
be taken over-by Raymond" Elliot Zir-
kie. Ph. D. Mr. Zirkie will treat this
subject with emphasis on plant rather
than animal study. He has been an
instructor of radial biology and is in-
terested in bio-physics, a new field.
The second appointment in biology
is Jane M. Oppenheimer, A.B., Bryn
Mawr, '32, and Ph.D. Yale Univer-
sity, 1935, who has done research
work in embryology.
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